proprio

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I think that this motu proprio is a grace which will strengthen the faith of traditionalist groups that are already organically present in the Church and which will help the return of the so-called Lefebvrians ...

The decretals ought to be carefully distinguished from the canons of the councils; from the epistol dogmatic, i.e. the pontifical documents touching on Catholic doctrine; from the constitutiones, or pontifical documents given motu proprio, that is, documents issued by the pope without his being asked to do so or consulted upon a subject.

In the coming weeks, the motu proprio of Benedict XVI will be published which makes the Ecclesia Dei commission - originated by will of Pope Wojtyla with the aim of facilitating the return of the Lefebvrians to full communion with Rome - an internal organ of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Andrea Tornielli writes that within the next weeks, Pope Benedict XVI will issue a motu proprio attaching the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as anticipated in his letter to the bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre.

The present survey then, is simply for informational purposes and is mostly interested in the question of what has been occuring since the motu proprio to get a sense of the lay of the liturgical land now and what it might be in the near future.

Perhaps some of our priestly readers would like to share with their brethren, with our seminarians, as well as to the laity here, how the motu proprio has positively affected them, their parishes, their priesthood and so on.

A recent discussion with a priest friend reminded me of an idea that I have had for some time to take up a private poll on the question of how people are approaching (or approach) the question of the liturgical readings in the usus antiquior since the motu proprio.